HR Competencies
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HR Competencies
100

Raw average of data that gives equal weight to all values, with no regard for other factors.

What is Unweighted mean

100

Way to collect, organize, store, analyze, and share data.

What is an Information system (IS)

100

Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without accommodation.

What are Essential functions

100

U.S act that amended Title VII and gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authority to “back up” its administrative findings and conduct its own enforcement litigation.

What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act

100

Average of data that adds factors to reflect the importance of different values.

What is Weighted mean

200

Extent to which a measurement instrument measures what it is intended to measure.

What is Validity

200

Ownership of innovation by an individual or business enterprise; includes patented, trademarked, or copyrighted property.

What is Intellectual property (IP)

200

Situation in which an organization’s compensation levels and benefits are similar to those of other organizations that are in the same labor market and compete for the same employees.

What is External equity

200

U.S. act that prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal or “substantially equal” work performed by men and women.

What is Equal Pay Act (EPA)

200

Ratio of gross profit to net sales.

What is Gross profit margin

300

The benefit created when an organization meets its strategic goals; measure of usefulness, worth, or importance.

What is Value

300

Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for their alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; also known as co-employment.

What is Joint employment

300

Provides each incumbent of a job with the same rate of pay, regardless of performance or seniority; also known as single-rate pay.

What is Flat-rate pay

300

Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without accommodation.

What are Essential functions

300

Visualization of the impact of change on productivity. When change is introduced, there is typically a decrease in productivity and then a gradual return to—or, ideally, a surpassing of—previous levels of productivity.

What is the J curve

400

The process by which an organization creates the product or service it offers to the customer.

What is the Value chain

400

Use of information from past and present to predict future conditions.

What is Judgmental forecasts

400

Pay increase given to employees based on local competitive market requirements; awarded regardless of employee performance.

What is General pay increase

400

Set of behavioral guidelines that an organization expects all of its directors, managers, and employees to follow to ensure appropriate moral and ethical business standards.

What are Ethics

400

Right of a legal body to exert authority over a given geographical territory, subject matter, or persons or institutions.

What is Jurisdiction

500

Statistical method for identifying the degree of difference between planned and actual performance or outcomes.

What is Variance analysis

500

Process of creating, acquiring, sharing, and managing knowledge to augment individual and organizational performance.

What is Knowledge management (KM)

500

Situations in which an employee’s pay is below the minimum of the range.

What are Green-circle rates

500

Employees who are excluded from U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage and overtime pay requirements.

What are Exempt employees

500

Organization’s debts and other financial obligations.

What are Liabilities